Re: A wishful thought?

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 06 Dec 1999 07:19:37 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>You know, Steve, nit-picking aside, how about adding the
>ProCopy code to XGS32?  Think about it for a moment.
>Sure, use is limited, but users could always find real IIGS
>users with 1.44MB drives to shrink disks which could be
>unshrunk on a PC.  Any PC.  I can think of some great
>uses for this capability.  An XGS32 user could work on
>an AppleWorks document, save it to the PC drive on a
>1.44MB ProDOS disk.  If the XGS32 user were also a
>IIGS or IIe user with a SuperDrive card or a BlueDisk card
>or a Floptical drive, that user simply plugs the ProDOS
>1.44MB disk into the real Apple II, loads the file into
>AppleWorks, and continues where he or she left off.

Sweet 16 already supports this type of thing.  You can mount physical
disks attached to your BeOS machine in Sweet 16.  I've used it to
access MS-DOS and HFS 1.44 MB floppies (I'd have done it with ProDOS
ones too but I don't have a high density controller for my IIgs).  I
even mounted a 1 GB MS-DOS partition and accessed it with MUG! (I
really need to register that program as I'll probably be using it a
lot in the future :).  I also have a SCSI card in my PC and accessed
an HFS EZ135 cartridge I created on my IIgs with Sweet 16 as well.

Needless to say, I have no problems getting ShrinkIt files into my
emulator anymore.  :-)

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